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Create Fiery Dragon Ravaging Mountain Village Scene in Photoshop

By James QuJune 27, 20254 Mins Read
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In this tutorial, I will show you the process used to Create Fiery Dragon Ravaging Mountain Village Scene in Photoshop. We will use a photo of a metal dragon display in a museum and make it alive and breath fire. We will also create a mountain village scene from several stock images. Have a try!

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Here is a preview of the final effect I have for this tutorial: (click to enlarge)

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OK Let’s get started!

To complete this tutorial, you will need the following stocks:

Mountain

Village by Cat-in-the-Stock

Dragon by MrDragonfyr-Stock

Fire

Cloud Brushes

Step 1

Create a new document sized 1440px * 720px with black background. Load the mountain stock image into Photoshop and select the top left side of the mountain indicated below:

Copy and paste the selection to our document. Adjust its layer size with the free transform tool to fit the size of our canvas, then use a soft eraser to fade the edges as shown below:

Apply the following adjustment layers as clipping masks to this mountain layer:

Black and White

Levels

Curves

and here is the effect so far:

Step 2

We will add another piece of the mountain stock onto our canvas. Select this piece shown below from the right side of the mountain stock image:

Copy and paste the selection to our document. Place the layer on the right and reduce its size. Then use a soft eraser to fade the top edges:

Add the following adjustment layer as clipping masks for this new mountain layer:

Black and white

Levels

Curves

and here is the effect so far:

Step 3

We will start working on the dragon in this step. Load the dragon stock image into Photoshop and select the dragon:

Copy and paste the selection to our document. Reduce its layer size and rotate it a bit counter clockwise. This will make the dragon look like it’s descending from the sky:

Use a big soft eraser to fade the head of the dragon, and its claws:

Add the following adjustment layers as clipping masks to this dragon layer:

Black and White

Levels

Curves

and here is the effect so far:

Step 4

We will add fire to the dragon in this step. Load the fire stock image into Photoshop and select the fire:

Copy and paste the selection to our document and reduce its size. Use the Warp Tool to compress it a bit and fit it to the dragon’s mouth:

Select some smaller fire particles from the fire stock image:

Copy and paste the selection to our document, set its layer blending mode to “Color Dodge”:

Duplicate this small fire layer a few times and scatter them around the canvas, make sure you adjust the size of each duplicated layer to ensure variety:

Step 5

Use a combination of cloud brush and cloud filter, add some cloud overlay for our image: (Make sure you set the opacity and flow of the brush to around 40%, so you don’t over-paint the canvas)

Paint some cloud around the dragon as well:

Step 6

We will add some flying fire particles around the canvas to make our design more epic. Go back to the fire stock image, create a new layer and use a particle brush to paint on the new layer:

Select this newly painted particle layer:

Go back to the background layer, and Ctrl + C to copy the selection:

Paste the selection to our document, then apply the following motion blur filter:

and you will have some flying particle effect like this:

Step 7

We’re almost done! For final touches, we can flatten the image, duplicate the background layer, and use apply the following Oil Paint (Photoshop CS6 or above) filter:

Add the following adjustment layer on top to fine-tune its colour and contrast:

Selective Color

Brightness and Contrast

and here is my final effect: (click to enlarge)

That’s it for this tutorial! Hope you enjoy it and find it useful. Till next time, have a great day!

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James is a seasoned Photoshop expert with over 25 years of experience, mastering the software since its 5.0 version. As the driving force behind PSD Vault, he authors the majority of its in-depth tutorials and insightful articles.

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